Electric Razor

NautalusX

To do somthing simple and quick, improving my skills I choose this razor I have.
I'll be trying to make it close to real life as possible within udk.

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I notice 5 different materials,
1. Shiney metal plastic (grey diffuse, cubemap, high spec, normal gloss) ???
2. Slightly textured rubber (black diffuse, bumbs in normal, high gloss, low spec)
3. textured plastic (black diffuse, bumps in normal, lower gloss, slightly higher spec)
4. pitted metal, slightly reflective (cubemap, bumps in diffuse, low gloss, high spec)
5. screws, reflective (cubemap, high spec, low gloss)

I'll be posting my progress soon hopefully as I plan this to be a quick workout.

NautalusX

finished the highpoly, now onto the low. This was quite difficult for me with all the curves, I'm used to doing flatter surfaces.

NautalusX

Here's how it came out. I learned from this not to mirror normals over obvious seams in udk if you cant hide them.

superdenny707

You may be able to get rid of the seam by moving the verts on the UVs slightly or painting over the normals in photoshop

ActionDawg

superdenny707 wrote: »

You may be able to get rid of the seam by moving the verts on the UVs slightly or painting over the normals in photoshop

don't paint over normal maps. they're not made for that as the content of the image is mathematical data and not something that is made to be visually interpreted by humans.

are the seams coming from when you bake lightmaps?